Tasmanian mining equipment manufacturer Elphinstone has made a remarkable comeback as an OEM manufacturer to the global Caterpillar group. The Burnie company, which employs 2,500, first shot to prominence when it modified Caterpillar surface equipment to operate underground. Eventually it grew into a 50: 50 joint venture with Caterpillar, designing and making underground load, haul,…
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We all love to love Australia’s successful value-adding wine making industry, but it seems all is not bliss on the nation’s vineyards. A report by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission just released warns of power imbalances in the grape supply chain being exploited by some wine makers. The ACCC looked at competition, contracting practices,…
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A quantum computer may have solved a problem in minutes that would take the fastest conventional supercomputer more than 10,000 years. A draft of a paper by Google researchers laying out the achievement leaked in recent days, setting off an avalanche of news coverage and speculation.
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A commercial-scale version University of NSW’s “microfactory” was launched yesterday, following a United Nations General Assembly address from prime minister Scott Morrison highlighting the need for action on plastics recycling.
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By Stuart Corner of IoT Australia GSMA Global mobile industry body, GSMA says its APAC IoT partnership programme has doubled in size in less than a year, to more than thirty mobile operators, making it the largest cross-regional IoT community in the world. The programme, launched in October 2018, brings operators, developers, manufacturers and system…
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Biotechnology giant CSL (ASX: CSL) is set to expand its portfolio of vaccines with a company-backed start up raising $14 million in capital, mostly from a federal government fund. Denteric Pty Ltd raised the cash from Canberra’s Biomedical Translation Fund (BTF) and private investors to develop a vaccine against dental caries. The vaccine, which will…
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Wind power giant Vestas has begun assembling drive trains and hubs for its wind turbines at a new factory in the former Ford stamping plant at Geelong, Victoria. This follows the opening of the Vestas Renewable Energy Hub (VREH) by state premier Daniel Andrews and energy minister, Lily D’Ambrosio. This is reportedly the first-time wind…
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The roles of women in the space industry are often overshadowed by their male counterparts.
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Those who worked at Holden between 1945 and 2017 are being sought for an oral history of the company and its workers.
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Drinking straws made from locally grown organic rye are being developed ahead of a proposed single use plastic ban in South Australia.
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